I sent an ask before, but I’m not sure if you got it. Are puzzle pieces bad? Could you explain why?

I’ve seen your explanations before and you make things so easy to understand.

I’ve always really like the puzzle piece thing because autism for me feels as if I have all the necessary information (the pieces and a guide for where they go), but I’m unable to make them fit together, like they’ve been warped from humidity or something and won’t actually connect.

realsocialskills said:

There’s not necessarily an inherent reason why the puzzle piece should be offensive (and there are a lot of ways in which it could have been a positive symbol.) It’s offensive because it’s a symbol that’s strongly associated with hateful attitudes. (That’s often the case with symbols.)

What Autism Speaks (and many other hate groups) means by using a puzzle is along the lines of “autism is a mysterious puzzle, and we need to solve the puzzle so we can rearrange autistic people so they won’t be autistic anymore.“